“We were able to relive old times,”. “It’s like we’re 12-year-olds again talking on set in this weird language only we can understand. And we got to explore a different dynamic onscreen that I think is something real, real different.”

Ryan O’Loughlin is directing the project, now in production, which is based on a story by animator Sergio Pablos (Rio) and has a script by John Requa and Glenn Ficarra, the showrunners of NBC’s This Is Us.

Smallfoot aims to turn the Yeti/Sasquatch lore 180 degrees, focusing on a Yeti who believes that humans exist, despite her society’s assertions to the contrary.

The movie has a Sept. 14, 2018 release date.

Tatum has previously voiced Superman in The Lego Batman Movie and voice-starred in The Book of Life.

For Zendaya, Smallfoot will mark her voice-acting debut.

Rodriguez has two movies for which she lent her voice in the can: Ferdinand, Fox’s adaptation of the classic children’s story, and The Star, Sony Pictures Animation’s take on the first Christmas.

As she gears up for Spider-Man: Homecoming, the budding style, screen, and social-media star has no plans to slow down.

AGE: 20.

PROVENANCE: Oakland, California.

THE WORLD’S A STAGE: “I fell in love with theater at a young age. I was that weird eight-year-old who actually appreciated Shakespeare. I loved singing and dancing and putting on performances for my parents,” who were both teachers.

THE HOUSE THAT MOUSE BUILT: By seventh grade, she had started auditioning in Los Angeles. “I got my first Disney show within six months.” After three seasons on the channel’s hit show Shake It Up, she went on to star in K.C. Undercover. This talented multi-tasker also serves as one of the show’s co-producers. “It’s like the best internship you can imagine.”

MARVEL’S MUSE: Zendaya will be making her big-screen debut as Michelle, Peter Parker’s nerdy classmate, in this summer’s anticipated reboot Spider-Man: Homecoming. “I auditioned, did my screen test, and waited like everyone else. It was important to me that my first movie be great—I didn’t care if I had one line.”

BREAKING THE MOLD: With her clothing line, record deal, charity work, and upcoming role alongside Hugh Jackman in The Greatest Showman, Zendaya shows no signs of slowing down. More than 55 million social-media followers are watching her every move. “I have a billion dreams, and I want to use my platform to help people. I’ve been given this power and I have to start conversations that are bigger than myself.”

According To Vulture.Com, Zendaya will voice the character of Raindrop in the English Version of “Little Door Gods” alongside Meryl Streep and Nicole Kidman! Read below for more information. I have also added some great HQ images of Zendaya along with Kesha at the Humane Society Rescue Gala.

The Chinese animated film Little Door Gods is getting a makeover for its English-language debut. Deadline reports that the Weinstein Company’s English-language version of the film, The Guardian Brothers, will feature the likes of Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Mel Brooks, and woke teen Zendaya doing the voice work. The Guardian Brothers centers on a family-owned wonton-soup shop that has passed through the generations, left in the hands of a mother (Kidman) and her daughter Raindrop (Zendaya). The Guardians are a group of spiritual protectors who watch over Earth. Streep will voice the narrator telling the story.

It’s a curious decision to announce the voices of the new English-language version without any Asian-American actors, particularly at this moment, when Doctor Strange is being dragged for whitewashing a traditionally Asian role. As a point of comparison, Disney’s Mulan, from 1998, featured the voices of a number of Asian-American actors, from Lea Salonga to B.D. Wong to Ming Na Wen. “We are thrilled that Harvey and the Weinstein team share our enthusiasm for this very Chinese film,” director Gary Wang said. It is unclear if Streep, Zendaya, and Kidman will adopt Chinese accents for the film.

The official Barbie Twitter page announced the “K.C. Undercover” star will be a one-of-a-kind doll.

According to Entertainment Weekly, Barbie is modeling Zendaya’s doll after her stylish Vivienne Westwood look at the 2015 Oscars. EW also reported Zendaya saying in a press release, “I’m excited to be a part of the new direction the Barbie brand is headed, specifically how they are celebrating diversity in the line and encouraging kids to raise their voices”

The superstar will host the Rock n’ Royals Concert Experience on Saturday, Sept. 26, where her doll will be on display.

“When I was little, I didn’t have one that looked like me, so I couldn’t connect with her in that way…But getting to visit the Mattel offices and see Barbie’s vision for the future…it was really cool. http://zendaya-coleman.com/wordpress/zendaya-to-be-new-barbie-girl/ http://zendaya-coleman.com/wordpress/zendaya-to-be-new-barbie-girl/ http://zendaya-coleman.com/wordpress/zendaya-to-be-new-barbie-girl/ http://zendaya-coleman.com/wordpress/zendaya-to-be-new-barbie-girl/ http://zendaya-coleman.com/wordpress/zendaya-to-be-new-barbie-girl/ http://zendaya-coleman.com/wordpress/zendaya-to-be-new-barbie-girl/I was able to see how they plan to diversify, broadening the horizons and the image of Barbie, and make it more, you know, open. I left the office feeling it was definitely something I wanted to be a part of,” Zendaya told Yahoo Celebrity.

According to the Hollywood reporter Zendaya is currently working a new Animated Film titled “Duck Duck Goose” you can read below for more information!

China’s Original Force Animation has been quietly setting up an animated motion picture unit while getting its first batch of features off the ground, and it is holding its debut event on Wednesday evening during CG conference Siggraph in Los Angeles.

The new unit is based in Culver City and headed by co-presidents Sandra Rabins and Penney Finkelman Cox, who are partners in the venture, along with Original Force founder Harley Zhao. The company seeks to produce at least one CG feature film approximately every 18 months.

During the launch event, the filmmakers revealed concept art and some details from their first projects. Currently in production in the feature unit is Duck Duck Goose, directed by Jenkins from a screenplay by Jenkins and Rob Muir. So far, confirmed voice cast includes Zendaya, Lance Lim, Greg Proops, Diedrich Bader, Rick Overton, Ken Jeong and Jennifer Grey. Finkelman Cox and Rabins are producing the feature along with Viola Chen. http://zendaya-coleman.com/wordpress/new-animated-film/ http://zendaya-coleman.com/wordpress/new-animated-film/ http://zendaya-coleman.com/wordpress/new-animated-film/ http://zendaya-coleman.com/wordpress/new-animated-film/ http://zendaya-coleman.com/wordpress/new-animated-film/

In the story — set in a world that the filmmakers are giving a painterly look — a free-wheeling hero, Peng, rejects the community of his tight-knit flock of geese in an attempt to live life on his own terms. But after he narrowly rescues two young ducklings from a deadly cat named Banzou, Peng agrees to look after them.

2. Favorite sport?
I’m going to have to go with basketball because I’m tall.

3. Last album you bought?
I think the last actual full album I bought was the Drake album [If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late].

4. Craziest fan story?
Honestly, the coolest ones are when girls my own age come up to me and are like, “Oh my god, I stalk you on Instagram! You brows are amazing!” That’s the best thing to me because I’m like, thank you. Thank you so much.

5. Favorite Disney Princess?
Princess Tiana because she has an attitude.

7. A lifetime supply of chocolate or pizza?
Pizza. I don’t think you could survive off chococlate. But you can survive off pizza because I’ve been doing it for 18 years.

8. Twitter or Instagram?
That’s hard! They kind of go hand in hand.

9. Most-used hashtag?
Hashtag Okrrr. O-K-R-R-R. I use it all the time.

10. Last person who texted you?
My niece.

Aww.
She’s 19. So it’s not that much of an aww. She’s like, “When are you coming back so we can chill?”

10. Who’s your doppelgänger?
I don’t have one. I have a very interesting face. So I’ve met very few Zendayas with this face. I’ve never met someone that I’ve thought, Wow you look like me.

11. Favorite reality show?Jersey Shore. Defnitely. One of my favs back in the day. My niece’s name in my phone is “My UTI.” Because of Snooki. “My UTI!” So embarrassing.

12. Celebrity crush?
That’s a long list. Do we have time for that? I would definitely say Morris Chestnut is up there. Idris Elba. Channing Tatum. I mean… the list goes on and on.

13. Can’t live without…?
My cell phone. It’s right here.

14. Dream vacation?
Sleeping! I just want to sleep! That’s all I want to do, just sleep on a beach somewhere.

15. Best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
Someone showed me a jar of Nutella once and, no I’m kidding. Honestly to do whatever makes you happy. And that is the most important thing that I could tell anyone. You have to do what makes you happy.

16. Go-to comfort food?
Ice cream. Häagen-Daaz.

17. Person you’d like to work with?
Beyoncé, Riri, Nicki, Drizzy.

18. If you could invite five people, living or dead, to a dinner party, who would they be?
Michael Jackson, OK? You’ve got Beyoncé, all right? You’ve got Stevie Wonder, right? And then Bob Marley and Tupac. I don’t know what’s about to go down at that dinner party. It’s about to be nuts.

Yet another photoshoot of Zendaya! I’ve added gorgeous photoshoot pictures of Zendaya in high quality for Harper’s Bazaar Magazine. You can also read her interview below.

How do you think fashion impacts your public persona and how people see you?

I like to think of myself as a strong influence for young people, and I think a big thing about being young is finding out who you are, experimenting, not being afraid to try things, and not being afraid to really embrace who you are and what makes you happy. And I think fashion is a big part of that. You don’t have to care about what people think or let people determine your happiness. Do whatever the heck you want.

Describe your style in three words…

I would say, my style is pretty fearless, definitely unique but still classic.

Do you have any style icons?

Honestly, just people who like to do their own thing. For example, Eryka Badu. People who don’t really follow the rules that are set in fashion and wear whatever the heck they want because that’s their style or that’s what they create for themselves. It’s a very admirable quality.

Zendaya is a a part of Paper Magazine’s “Beautiful People” issue. I’ve added a gorgeous photoshoot picture to the gallery. You can also read her interview about her career, music, etc, below.

Congrats on the new K.C. Undercover. It’s a huge opportunity for you — you’re starring in the show, obviously, and it’s been quite the year. Tell me a little bit about it.

Well it’s cool for me because not only do I get to act in it and be in front of the camera; I get to be behind the camera and produce, which is kind of a new hat I’m putting on. I’ve always wanted to do it, and I’ve always kind of paid attention to behind the scenes, but now I have a whole new respect for what goes into creating a production.

Pretty much any kind of decision that is being made, they usually talk to me about it first – whether it be script changes, costumes, sets, design, whatever. I like to be involved as much as possible.

Are you also in the midst of working on your new album, or have you kind of had to put that on pause while you’re shooting the show?

No, I’m working on it. I usually work on it on the weekends.

Can you share anything about that?

Well there’s no title yet, but honestly I’m just trying to make good music that I enjoy and that I think that is a step up from the last time.

Zendaya Coleman stopped by InStyle’s offices yesterday to chat about her upcoming gig hosting the Radio Disney Music Awards on Saturday, April 25, but our conversation with the 18-year-old singer, actress, and red carpet force quickly turned to one of her favorite topics: fashion. And much to our delight, the shoe-obsessed star exclusively revealed some major news: She’s designing her first-ever line of footwear with her stylist, Law Roach, set to launch just in time for back-to-school season this year.

“We plan on doing the best of everything,” Zendaya said—and when she said everything, she meant it. The K.C. Undercover star’s debut collection will include boots, sandals, and everything in between. “We’re going to create a good sneaker, and we’re going to do a cute flat,” she told InStyle. And while you can expect to see a variety of fabrics and embellishments in the line, Zendaya assured us that wardrobe staples like solid black pumps will still be part of the collection.

“My inspiration is all of the young women out there who are my age and older—working women who don’t necessarily want to spend a trillion dollars, but want to get a good shoe,” she said. Her goal? “I want to make affordable shoes of quality that are very fashion forward, chic, and that I’m going to wear.”

Creating a shoe that she personally loved was the most important thing for Zendaya, who has been involved in each and every step of the creative process so far. “It’s her own brand from start to finish,” Roach told InStyle. “It’ll only be stuff that we’re proud of and that I would style her in, even if I wasn’t part of the brand.”

As for why the pair chose footwear for their first venture into the fashion world, the answer is simple. “Everybody knows that if you bring a new shoe to an outfit, it kind of recreates it and makes it brand new all over again,” Roach said. “We just thought that was the most exciting thing we could do—and with a little piece of her style.”

Zendaya plans to debut the shoes at the Met Gala on May 4, so make sure to check out a first look at the line then. We know we will!

Bella Thorne and Zendaya have been best friends since their days spent playing CeCe and Rocky on Disney Channel’s Shake It Up, but apparently the girls didn’t always get along. When we chatted with Bella about her new movie The DUFF, she revealed that she and Zendaya had to overcome a lot of outside pressures that forced them to compete against each other.

“Zendaya and I were put in a very unfortunate position where we were kind of forced to compete against each other [during Shake It Up], which made the whole first season of the show just very awkward for us,” Bella EXCLUSIVELY tells us. “We wanted to love each other, but yet we were constantly being put against each other. It was, ‘Who’s better at this?’ and ‘Who’s better at that?'”

“And then second season we kind of just had this tell-all talk where we started crying and really just put everything out there on the table, and that’s when we became best friends.”

We can’t believe that Bella and Zendaya felt like they were in constant competition during the beginning of the show. They always made it seem like they hit things off right away!

Luckily, after their serious bonding session, they never turned their backs on each other. Bella even guest starred on Z’s show K.C. Undercover!

“We text each other all the time, and we’re always sending photos back and forth,” Bella tells us. “Being on set with her again was awesome, just to have my Z back, and to see how much she’s changed and how some of the things that I used to say, now she’s saying… It’s so weird, but yet I love it!”

Although a photographer has been documenting her every smile and twirl for the past few hours in a Manhattan studio, 18-year-old Zendaya isn’t too tired to sneak in a few selfies. Or, rather, she has enlisted her father, a former gym teacher-turned-manager to help. Hopefully, these behind-the-scenes shots will appease the actress-singer-dancer’s 4 million social media followers, a ravenous fan base with whom Zendaya always finds time to communicate — no matter how hectic her schedule is.
Lately, her days are pretty jam-packed. The Northern California native has been making a name for herself ever since 2010, when she landed a role on the Disney Channel series Shake It Up opposite Bella Thorne. Less than five years later, Zendaya (who was born Zendaya Coleman) has already released an advice book for tweens called Between U And Me, as well as a self-titled debut album that mined pop and R&B influences with great success. (Zendaya recently went platinum, a feat in a post-Spotify world.) She was the youngest person to appear on Dancing with the Stars (she was a runner-up), and is currently working on a new Disney sitcom. Yet as fast-paced as her own life is, on a recent visit to New York City, Zendaya admits that she doesn’t think she could survive in the City that Never Sleeps. “I could see myself being here for a month, tops,” laughs Zendaya. “I would spend way too much money. My sleeping pattern would be all messed up. There’s just so much available! Anytime I was hungry, I could go out and eat. At home, things close. You have to go to sleep.”

Home now means Los Angeles, where she lives with her family and Midnight, her giant schnauzer, but for Zendaya it all began in Oakland, a city that is changing like the star herself. “It’s a very inspiring place,” she declares. “It has a bad reputation, but honestly, a lot of creative people come out of there.” As a child, Zendaya immersed herself in Oakland’s artistic communities: She spent three years performing with the youth dance troupe Future Shock Oakland, honing skills that would later be of use in her music career, and she was a regular fixture at the nearby California Shakespeare Theater, where her mother worked as a house manager and trained conservatory students.

While most girls her age are flipping through teen magazines for prom inspiration and tips on college applications, Zendaya is sitting in the front row at fashion weeks and appearing on the covers of those very same teen magazines. As she fast approaches the cusp of adulthood, it’s inevitable that her relationship with Disney and its preteen viewers will change. Unlike the most recent batch of Disney-branded starlets, Zendaya plans on sticking with the company that gave her a start. “Selena, Miley, Demi — they’re all different and they all went different ways. Everyone has their own version of their career that they want to create and things they want to do and accomplish. For me, I obviously want to continue to stay in the Disney world and grow at the same time.” So far, growing within Disney means taking on more responsibility: For the upcoming K.C. Undercover, a show about a high school student who is recruited as a spy by her parents, Zendaya will star as well as co-produce. “Now I’m able to really have a vision,” she says, leaning forward with noticeable excitement. “I can say what I want and be assertive. I can have a really, really strong voice and presence on my own show and be listened to. That’s the coolest part. I have more control; I have more freedom to make [K.C. Undercover] something that I’m proud of.”

Zendaya isn’t the first Disney star to fight for a seat at the table — Raven-Symoné, a woman whom the young actress looks up to, also produced her own Disney Channel series, That’s So Raven. “I look to her comedically,” Zendaya says of her friend and mentor. “I think she is so funny and that, to this day, she had the best Disney show that was on air. When I met her, she was a genuinely kind person, and that’s what you want to see: someone who has grown up as a young star but still has a heart of gold and is very sweet. That’s the most important thing.” When asked about the controversy surrounding Raven-Symoné’s recent interview with Oprah in which the actress claimed to be “American, not African-American,” Zendaya, herself half-black, seems unperturbed. “She’s grown; she can say whatever she wants. Everyone has an opinion. Opinions are like buttholes,” she says. “Everyone has one and everyone thinks everyone else’s stinks. Let people live.”

Surely she wishes people would’ve let her live when she was recently given the chance to pay homage to one of her heroes. The Internet exploded with criticism after Zendaya was cast as the lead in Lifetime’s Aaliyah biopic, a role she later backed out of due to concerns about the quality of the film’s production. One of the loudest critiques was that Zendaya wasn’t “black enough” to portray the late R&B singer. Rather than hurtful, she found the assessments just strange and ignorant. “It doesn’t make sense,” she says. “Here’s how I put it: The first African-American President of the United States is half-black. So is he not the first black president? Is he just the first half-black president? Do we take that credit away from him? No. Whoever is supposed to play [Aaliyah] — whether they are half-Asian or whatever — it’s not about that. It’s about doing it with respect and integrity.”

Yet the young star doesn’t let any ill will get her down: “It’s just irrelevant. I have so much to be thankful for — why am I going to let some random person in Idaho kill my vibe?” Zendaya has much more to do: a series to lead and produce, a second album for which she is trying to woo Drake (“He has to know I’m obsessed with him,” she laughs), charitable endeavors, and soon possibly a project with fashion. “2015 is about showing my work, showing the things I can do, and continuing to have fun in the process, ” she says. “As much as I do, I actually love it. As long as I’m happy while I’m doing it, I’m going to keep doing it for a long time.”

Zendaya and Bridgit Mendler will be appearing together for one night only at the Palace Theatre in Albany New York on October 30.

Multi-talented actress and Hollywood Records Platinum-Selling Artist, Zendaya, recently released her self-titled 2013 debut full-length album where she delivers soulful pop with an urban edge. Her first single included in the album, “Replay” was certified platinum for selling 1,000,000 copies in the U.S. and now has over 44 million views on VEVO.

Zendaya starred as Raquel “Rocky” Blue, one half of the comedic duo of young dancers trying to dance her way to stardom, in the hit Disney Channel series “Shake It Up!” She also starred in “Shake It Up: Made In Japan,” the record breaking 90-minute song and dance-filled special which featured Zendaya’s single and video “Fashion is my Kryptonite.” Zendaya was also the break out star and runner-up on Season 16 of ABC’s Dancing with the Stars. She is currently set to star and co-produce in a topline Disney channel spy pilot and also recently starred in the Disney Channel Original Movie, “Zapped” which premiered this summer.

Zendaya was just announced as UNICEF’s newest Trick-Or-Treat Ambassador!

“I loved Trick-or-Treating for UNICEF when I was younger because it was such an empowering experience to be able to make a difference. Kids need more than candy; they need basics like medicine, nutrition and clean drinking water, and millions of them wouldn’t have these things without UNICEF,” Zendaya shared in a statement.

She added, “I’m really excited to celebrate Halloween this year by inspiring a new generation of kids to be Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF superheroes that help save other kids’ lives.”

This year, kids and parents can now set up individual fundraising pages on Crowdrise for their friends and family members to donate as well as turn their Halloween party into a Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF fundraiser by setting up a donation page and including a link to it in their party invitation. Sweet! To get started, visit www.trickortreatforunicef.org.